Worship Quotes

"You can tell who is being worshiped on Sunday morning in a given church by whom the service is attempting to please." - Michael Horton

"Worship is the heart’s response to the goodness of God in the breadth of human experience." - Stuart Townend

"The worship team is not meant to be the church's jukebox. Its purpose is not to play everyone's favorite song."

"I need each of you to sing mercy into my ears so that I will have the courage to confess my sins." - Paul Tripp

"The inner essence of all worship is experiencing Christ as more satisfying than anything that you lose in death and everything that you have in life." - John Piper

"Worship from the heart can only go as high as it is deep in theology." - John Macarthur

"Worship in such a way as to make hypocrites uncomfortable. As Bunyan put it, 'that the company of the saints would be too hot for them.'" - Douglas Wilson

"The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God." - JI Packer

"Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore." - Geerhardus Vos

"Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship." - Eugene Peterson

"For a human being there can be no vacuum of non-worship. One is either submitted to God in the doing of his will and the glorifying of his name, or one is submitted to someone, or something else." - Tom Schreiner

This pretty bird, O! how she flies and sings, But could she do so if she had not wings? Her wings bespeak my faith, her songs my peace; When I believe and sing my doubtings cease. - John Bunyan

"No man ever errs on the side of giving too much honour to God the Son." - JC Ryle

"The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God." - Greg Beale

"To be truly happy, a man must have sources of gladness which are not dependent on anything in this world."- JC Ryle

"Churches sing because their new hearts can’t help but echo the Word which has given them life." -Jonathan Leeman

"We need God’s help, by his Spirit, to worship him properly…it takes a miracle of God to make a worshipper." - Vaughan Roberts

"Corporate worship is designed to remind you that the world is ruled by a wise, gracious and capable King and he is not you." - Paul Tripp

"Come, weary souls, with sin distressed, Come and accept the promised rest; The gospel’s gracious call obey, And cast your gloomy fears away." - Anne Steele

"Can a man think it wise to occupy himself with frivolities throughout the whole of his earthly existence?" - Spurgeon

"We are to make melody in our hearts before it ever reaches our lips." - Ron Man

"When the church is gathered together in the name of God, the glory of God is the aim of our melody making." - Matt Boswell

"God is pleased when our worship reflects our need and his bounty, our bankruptcy and his riches, our folly and his wisdom, our weakness and his strength, our emptiness and his fullness, our hunger and his rich food, our thirst and his fountain of living water." - John Piper

"Every singer, instrumentalist, and choir member should share in facilitating the high calling of congregational singing." - Keith Getty. And also yo

"Biblical worship is the full-life response - head, heart, and hands - to who God is and what He has done." - Chris Collins

"True worship is like an uncontrollable alien bursting forth from the chest of the unsuspecting theologian." - Zac Hicks

"Worship is first your identity before it's ever your activity. You are a worshipper." - Paul David Tripp

"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"If we lose our awe at what the Bible is, and the privilege and pleasure we have to hear it heralded week after week, we lose the clarifying and sustaining power under everything else we love at church." - Marshall Segal

"Feelings are a good servant, but a bad master." - Dallas Willard

"The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience." - Oswald Chambers

"Praise is the end of prayer and preaching." - Charles Spurgeon

"To 'glorify' something simply means to enjoy it & then tell everyone how good it is. We all do this, continually. We were built to do this." - Matt Papa

"Authentic worship is not perfect worship. It stands in continual need of examination, repentance, increased depth and humility as well as outpouring meekness and humility." - Harold Best

"Corporate worship ought to be thoughtful and provocative, motivating and inspiring, appealing to our minds, emotions and wills." - David Peterson

"To be stirred by singing is to be human, and it's a means of grace to God's church that such a gift is so easily accessible." - Mike Cosper

"Music does not make God more present or bring us into God's presence. Only Jesus does that." - Bob Kauflin

"Christ-centered, thank-filled worship is the capstone over everything else we are and do in this life." - Tony Reinke

"We sing to encourage one another, we sing to teach and admonish one another, but ultimately, we sing so we can praise God together, as God’s people." -Tim Challies

"Perhaps our biggest reason for our lack of wonder is our lack of gratitude." - Matt Papa

"The choir need preaching as much as anybody." - John Piper

"Nothing in the universe is as beautiful and captivating and satisfying as God!" - Sam Storms

"All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name. For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God." - Psalm 86:9-10

"Run, run, and work the law commands Yet finds me neither feet nor hands But sweeter news the gospel brings It bids me fly and lends me wings" - John Bunyan

"Worship is not something we work up, it's something that comes down to us from God." - Sinclair Ferguson

"How marvelous that nearly all believers walk into the gathered service with a divinely designed musical instrument–the voice. We should emphasize it." - Thabiti Anyabwile

"I've heard it often said, 'Show me a man's checkbook, and I'll tell you where his heart is.' Similarly we might say, 'Show me how you worship, and I'll tell you your theology.'" - Zac Hicks

"Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, 'I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea." - Exodus 15:1

"The atmosphere of Christian worship is the soul delighting in God." - Matt Boswell

"The gospel is the heart of Christianity, and so it should be at the heart of our churches." - Mark Dever

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